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The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1887-12-14
Death Of a Prominent Citizen.

Gen. George w. Clark, leading citizen
OF New Vineyard, died December 9th,
aged nearly seventy-four years. He was
at one time in the State militia where he
acquired his title. He was prominent in
the councils of the Democratic party, be-
ing elected State Senator one term, twice
represented his district in the House. and
was one of the candidates for elector In
the Greeley campaign. He had also filled
various county and town offices and was
man generally respected and looked up
to by all In this section. Mrs. S. J Wal
ton of this town is daughter Of Gen,
Clark, and with Mr.. Walton, attended
the obsequies the Sth inst.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1887-12-14

The President started out to enforce
the necessity of reducing the revenue,
but when a quarter-way through his Mes
sage, dropped into free trade speech
which is addressed to the country rather
than Congress. This discloses the fact
that the President and til Sc he represents
are more DESTROYS to break down protec-
tion than to get rid of the surplus.-Lea-
rentcOuh Times
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1887-12-14

Johann Most gets a sentence of one
year in prison. 1t is not new exerience
for him. Several Times in Europe and
once in America he has been secluded
from his fellow men Hin the hope that
he might see the errors of his tongue
and desist in the future. But his tongue
has always gone to wagging again as
soon as he got out. He belongs to the
class of incorrigibles whom it would be
for the interest of the community to
shut up indefinitely.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1887-12-14

The SOMERSET REPORTER says there are
one-huu1rcd aud seVenty-fivc citizens in
Skowhcgan over the three score and ten
limit mentioned in the Biblc, and mem
tion- ii rs argument in favor of the eli
mate of Maine being healthful one.
This summer man who has long been a
resident of California; but who was born
in Waterville while in our Office was
praising the climate of his adopted State
a. Che best in the world; but on being
questioned, admitted that the people did
not live so long there, we not so vgor-
Gus, and did not enjoy life so truly as in
this grand old State of Maine. Water
rite Mail
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MASON

SOMERSET Lopcr, No. a, & \. M-etated
communication Mondays on or preceding pi'
moon. Masonic Hall 50 Water Street
SOMERSET CHATTER X. A. No. IS-Stited com.
munication last Friday Of each month
De MoLAY CoMMANpERY, x. Meetings ist
Tuesday of each month.
r Mr. MoRIAH CouNcIL--Mectings I'd wednesday
of each month.
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We call the attention of subscribers to
the fact that now is good time to order
the REPORTER for another year or even
for six or three months. By subscribing
now one will get the Christmas numbers,
and the doings of the December term of
court which commences the goth, inst.
If you are undecided whether you want
it for more than months, send in your
name and 80 cents for a trial trip
for that length of time. After reading
it months you may conclude that you
will want it longer. This Is our reason
for reducing the price on "trial trip
We would also suggest to our subscribers
that December Is good month to
square up the old subscription, and
renew for another year, word To the
wise is sufficient.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1887-12-14

CASE OF TUBERCULOSIS. Mr.. F. O.
Beal, President Of the Cattle Commission,
made an examination of cow at Blanch-
ard, last week, which was afflicted with
tuberculosis. He found the animal very
much emaciated, and with hacking
cough. 1t was breathing through one
lung, the other lung being entirely gone.
belonged to man by the name of Black
stone.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1887-12-14
DIRECTORY.
SOMERSET COUNTY OFFICERS.

Clerk OF Csurs-I.. II. Webb, Skowhcgan.
County Auorney-E. +. Danforth, Skowhcgin.
Judge of Probatc-Turner Boswell, Scion.
Register of Prahate-S II. Goodwin, Skowhcgan.
County Commits sioners-IIiram Moore, Madison
Center; y. II. Chase, lexington Albert IeaFitt,
Athens.
Register Of Deeds--Wm. II. Emery, Skewhegan
County Trcasurer-Gco. Gushing, Skowhegan.
Sherif-Zenas Vaughan, Skowhegan.
Deputies-E. p. Nilcs, y. New Portland; :, II.
Mosher, Pittsfeld; b. NJ. Steward, No. Arson
h. 5. Williams iIartland; Lyman Grant, SCION :
Augustus Bradbury, Fairfield, {. II. jones'
Athens Bcni. A. Sawyer, Starks.
Jailcr-John II. Mitchell. Nouidgewoc.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1887-12-14

A suspicion is entertained in some
quarters that Mr.. Cleveland does not in
tend to be candidate again. The ground
of it is the fact that he has taken a
definite stand on an important question.
Democrats ambition to be candidates
have in the past almost invariably strad-
died all questions of that nature But
Mr.. Cleveland is bumptious and like the
first Napoleon Is firm believer in des-
tiny.-Portldnl Press.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1887-12-14

Mr.. G. j. Shaws chestnut stallion.
Gen, Withers, by Almon dam Bloom, by
Ashland, son of Mambrino Chief, has
been added to Charles Yapps airing of
trotters in Allston, Mass. His stable
companions are George Lee, 2,23f, Fred
s., 23l, and Aristmont. Gen. Withers
will be handled for speed, next season.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1887-12-14

Coon TEMrLARs-M Meetings Friday evenings at
Room 4, Coburn Hall.
WoMENs CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION
g. a. X. Hall, meetings Tuesdays At }. =. NJ
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1887-12-14

CARRABAssrr LopGE No. Ji-Mcets Wednesday
evenings 7.30 O'Clock.
PARMENAs ENcAMPMENT No. fS-Meets second
and fourth Tuesdays of each month in Odd Fellows
hall. SO Water Street.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1887-12-14

Fezler & Wagner Druggists, Rock
Island, Ill +, writ, DIR. Bulls Cough
Syrup is the leading Cough medicine in
our city. We sell more, in fact four
times more, than of any other.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1887-12-14

GRAND ARMY or THE REPuBL1c-Russell Post
No. %, Meetings lst and Sd Fridays Grand Army
Hall, corner Madison and Water Streets.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1887-12-14

Ancient ORpE, or UNITED WoRKMEN.-Skow
hogan Lodge No 40. Stated meetings I'D and ith
Fridays, &. a. II. Hall
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MISCELLANEOUS.

MAINE VOLUNTEER MILITIA COMPANY E.
Horace NJ. Weston, Captain, Armory I45 Water 81
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1887-12-14

Ladies Idk'fs in great variety, from Bets. to $l.00
each See our Embroidered Linen Idkfs at 25c. each
Great Bargain in Plain White Hem Stitched Linen
Ildkts. good Hem-Stitched IIdkf for &C. good
assortment of Gents IIdEfs at low prices. Big stock
of Silk Handkerchiefs
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1887-12-14

The following is a lit of men and
women residing in this town who are 20
years old and above, as far as we have
been able to gather the names and ages.
md omissions
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-27
A Marvellous re1enhons.

Telegraphing on March 8, the Paris cor
respondent of the London Times said: 81
was invited to be present to-day at some
telephone experiments between Paris and
Brussels with new apparatus known as
the micro telephone push-butt0n.' These
experiments, which were made on behalf
of the two telegraphic administrative de-
partments of France and Belgium, pro-
duCed very lively impression on those
present, and | believe the new apparatus
to be the most perfect yet produced. AS
Its name indicates, it has the form of
an ordinary electric push-button.
When the button has been pushed
in, and has made sound at the other ex-
tremity, it is taken out, and is found to
be attached to long electric wire. There
is thus exposed the telephone plate,
which is extremely sensitive, so that
when it is necessary to speak at short
distances it is not necessary to come
close to the instrument. For communi-
cations in the same street or house, the
operator places the upper part near him
self, and without changing his position
ne can speak with the correspondent at
the opposite extremity. But what makes
this apparatus the most successful
of telephone instruments is
that it can be made for half
crown, that is to say, for not
more than the price of the ordinary push
button. Between Paris and Brussels this
instrument, costing bali crown, worked
with admirable precision. The inventor
is DR.. Cornelius Hertz, one day nomt-
mated grand officer of the Legion of
Honor, next day described as an emisssry
of Germany, md lastly as the friend, adviser
and confident of General BOulanger. He
is in reality an electrician whose inVen-
tive talent has been stimulated by his
residence in America, where there is a
boundless demand for improvements in
electrical apparatus and in all mechanical
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-27
Miss Croker aiarri.d

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, April 26.-The
marriage Of Cha le- B. Alexander Of New
York and Harriet S. Crocker, daughter Of
Charles Croker, vice-presiient OF The
Southern Pacific Company, was ceIe-
brated at noon to-day at race church.
Rev. E. r. Spalding officiating. The
eiitice was crowded with the most fash.
iouable people of San Francisco. TIE
bridal party entered the church to q wei,
ding march from Lohengrin. After the
ceremony the newly welded people pro.
Ceeded 10 he mansion of the brides
father where q wedding breakfast wss
given at which only members and rels.
tiyes of the families OF the contracting
parties were present. The Il raj deCOrs.
tions in the church were the handsomes
ever seen here.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-27
A Killing i Ia Fannin County.
Special to the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette.
BONHAM, TEX April 26.-Constable
M. 7. Dunn this evening brought to the
city and lodged ih jail Green Lynch, who
on yesterday shb and instantly killed
Jack Gust, nearI Elwood, twenty miles
north of this city. The cause of the kill
ing was en- old igrudge. 1t seems that
three or four ye ars ago the men had q
difficulty about a settlement, and bad
blood has exist led between them ever
since. On yesterday Lynch, who resides
II the Nation, ca me over to this side, and
on passing GUSTS house the difficulty was
renewed and resi- allied in Lynch firing g
load of bucksh bit into Gusts left side,
with result above stated. Gust leaves q
wife and two CHI ldren. Lynch also has q
family.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-27

main track was laId the tracklayers began
the work. of putting in fifteen miles of
siding at Purcell, and the trackmen began
the work of surfaCiDg The first train
will probably be run over the road on May
;, but whether frem Texas or Kansas is
not st present kno wn. With the building
of the road the Baltimore and OHIO Tele-
graph Company has been keeping pace by
strDging its wires, and in q few days
this company will have direct
line to Kansas City and make
connections with many miles of wire
already up in Kansas and Missouri. By
the connection made yesterday between
the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad
and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
Railroad Fort Worth taps the entire sYs-
TEN of the great AtcbiSOn road. This
marks one of the most important epOChs
in the commercial history Of this thriving
young metropolis, and it but adds another
great factor to its future growth and de-
velOpment. The AtChisOn, Topeka and
Santa Fe people have thoroughly estab-
ished themselves as an enterprls-
ing railroad corporation. The head of
the road, President William 3. Strong, is
one of the best railroad men in the coun-
try, and it is to his untiring energy and
unquestioned ability that the present sue
cess Of the road is due. Santa Fe stock
sold the other day at ITO, and this Isl
the highest point it has ever reRChedin
the history of the company, and tseer
tainly speaks volumes for Mr. Stf8ng s
management of the company 8 affairs j
The Santa Fe is now building it's line5
from Kansas City to Chicago, with fa
branch to st. Louis, and work eis
being pushed rapidly. A line is being
constructed north from the main line in
Kansas, which in time will go through the
state of Nebraska into Southern Dakota.
The Kiowa branch is being rapidly push
ed through the Panhandle to q junction
with the Fort Worth and Denver Road.
Branches are being sent out in every
conceivable direction in Kansas, and al
ready the state is covered with a great
spider web of roads, all feeding the
main line. It is understood that
during this and the coming year
the Santa Fe proposes to do some ex-
tensive railroad building in Texas, and
chief among the roads to be built by
them under charter to the Southern Kan
sas Of Texas is the line from Fort Worth
to junction with the KiOWa extension in
the Panhandle. President Strong is al
ready f4vorite with our people, and in
any of his undertakings in Texas can
count on the hearty support of the peo-
pie of Fort Worth. They will aid with
open hand so liberal and broad gagged q
road as the A'cHison, Topeka aud Santa
Fe-GuIf, Colorado and Santa Fe. l. was
stated last night that the St. Louis
and San Francisco has already Or
dered a corps of engineers and g
heavy force of men into the
field to build from Tulsa to junction
with the Atchison-Gulf line in the Terri
tory, and that instructions are to have the
work completed in sixty days. We have
an air line to Kansas City and now we are
to have the shortest line to St. LOUIS by
way of the AtchisOn- Gulf and Frisco.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-27
The Boycott Renewed.

P1TTsBURG, PA, April The trouble
between the railroads of the Western Pas
senger Association and those of the Cen
tral Traffic ASSOCIATION regarding the sale
of through tickets and the abolishing of
commissions is assuming more serious
phase. 1t is said that number of roads
that consented to the proposed agree
ment with the eastern roads, including
the Gould system, have not fully CON-
piled with the proposed agreement. AS
a result the Pennsylvania Company has
issued another circular disseminating the
sale of tickets on the following roads:
The Burlington and Missouri River; the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy; the CHI
cago, Milw ukee and St. Paul; the
Greeubay, Winons and st. Paul; the
Hannibal and st. Joe; the Kansas, ST.
Joseph and Council Bluff; the Missouri
Pacific; the Missouri, Kansas and Texas;
the Milwaukee and Northern; the St.
Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern; the
St. Louis, Keokuk and Northwestern and
the Texas and Pacific. This makes q
total of thirty-two railroads in the west
over which the Pennsylvania Company
now ceases to sell through tickets.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-27
TIE FIRE RECORD.
Two Lives Lost and Twd Persons Seriously
Injured at AHegi @aDy City.
a Pittsburtg Fire.

J PITTsBURG, PA April ga fire broke
out this morning in Willis Bros grocery,
! corner of Lscock and CORY streets, Ale
| ghany City, entailing aIlOss Of life besides
| injury to several people and the destruc-
ton OF considerable prO perty. The build
| ing ca fOur-stOry One) lis used as gre
Gerry Dy Willis Bios, they and their moth
! er and some r0Omer$ occupying the up
! per stories. Shortly after / O'Clock Mrs.
/ Wills was aRaked. Arising she saw
sparks coming up the Elevator in the rear
| Of the building. Snd alarmed the in
mates. At the same time 81 outsider
| Uncovered the fire and gave the
alarm. Eleven pc ple we're known
| TO be in the burning building.
The smoke was tnick and hung in dense
clouds through the pass&5e and hall
/ ways. Ladders we're run up to the
various ssOries. To Open Q window from
one of the large ladders. thrown uD
against the building was to meet q cloud
| of sufOCating vSDOt, but Into it both
| fremen and policemen plunged. The
heads of the frightened women were en-
! vel0ped in clothes, add they were carried
out I'll unipjured dxcept Sophie Boles.
! She could not be found. One of the most
! appalling incidents IOf the fire was
| the jumping of two people from the build
| ing. While the frRmen were fighting
| their way upstairs William Eoerman ap-
peared at g window iOnf the third floor.
He was too far gore to shout, out he was
seen and the crowd yelled 20 him to hold
on. A ladder went Up and a man hastily
started up to help EOerman. When the
resCuer had reached the second floor
Eoerman was seen tip lurCh forward and
then come down with rush. Whether
he fell or jumped could not be told. He fell
! on his head and shoulders and was picked
up unconscious. Dne HoggLzerun, c
Greek, q powerful imam, was the other
victim. His room was on the fourth
floor. The bravery 6f man IL the crowd
probably saved his life. The Greek had
poised himself on tie sill. He looked on
the flames behind him and the pavement
below, and. then ms de sprin9frOm the
sill. Just as his body shot downward g
man from the crowd ran forward with
his arms OutstretCIhed and caught the
falling body. The force sent him
TO the ground with the Greek, but the
latter's head nit THE pavement, and it is
thought his skull isl fractured. The man
VINO had run the risk for the stranger dis
appeared and the Greek was carried
away. The fire held on stubbornly, and
it was half-past O'Clock before it was
uEder control. A search of the house was
then made, and the bodies of Sophie
BOles and Fred Schultz were found on the
fourth floor. They were still in bed and
had evidently been suffOcated to death
from the smoke. The injured, Ebemann
end two Greeks, were removed TO the
hospital, where they are now resting
easy. 1t is feared, however, that Eoer-
mann and HOggitzarun will not recover.
The fire is supposed to have been caused
by an explosion of natural gas. The loss
is $50, 900; covered by insurance.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-27
THE RAILROADS.
Fort Worth is United to Kansas City
and the Great AtchisOn System
By Rails of Steel.
Track Laying on the Fort Worth and Rio
Grands Reaches johnson County
Fort Worth and Denver-SOtes.
Home Notes.

Rush H. Barnes of the Chicago and Al
ton was in Fort Worth last night.
Thomas W. Jackson, land agent of the
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe, was in
Fort Worth last night.
j. Mullane, commercial agent of the
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe, with head
quarters at Fort Worth, took 8 run up
the extension into the Territory on Sun
day and says the scenery in the Nation is
grand.
Steel rails, siXty-twO pounds TO the foot,
seventeen ties 10 the rail, on the main line
of the Atchison-Guf. Iron rails and if
teen ties 10 the rail on the branches. The
Atchlson- Gulf will do its business on the
main line.
The Fort Worth and Denver has forty
five miles Of track laid beyond Quanah,
and now that the forces on the AtChiSOn-
Gulf will soon be through work, the num-
Der Of men at work on the Fort Worth and
Denver extension will be greatly aug
mented.
President Paddock has not forgotten
that promised excursion down the Fort
Worth and Rio Grande, to the members
of the press, but says on some Sunday
soon the trip will be made. Every one
connected with the road has been so
busy" said Captain Scully yesterday,
that we have not had time to get the
cars ready"
Captain Scully, in charge of the con-
struction trains on the Fort Worth and
Rio Grande, said last night that track was
laid TO q point twentY-siX miles below the
city. Yesterday the forces We're surfacing
up the last few miles of the track laid.
The end of the track has now passed.
beyond the confines of Tarrant
county and is some distance
over the line into Johnson county. BY
next week the track will have reached
Hood county The first station on the
road is Scullyville, three miles from the
city, and the next is seven miles out.
The last station has not as yet been
named aud is at present spoken of as
"the switch"
The last spike is driven home. The
steel rails from the north have been
united 10 those from the south, and the
AtchisOn-Gulf Road is an actually. An
other link 10 Fort Worth's prosperity has
been forged and welded on 10 those
making up the chain Of metropOlltanism.
Sunday morning five and half miles Of
track remaIned 10 be laid, but such was
the energy Of the men that by ll:2O yes
terday morning the work was all done,
and one unbroken line Of sixty-two- pound
steel rails united Fort Worth TO Kansas
City and all points on the main line Of the
Atchisoa, Topeka and Santa Re Road. /
The iuaction was made at a station called |
PURCELL four miles south Of
the Canadian. 1t is less than 4 year ago |
that The GAZETTE announced that the
Atchison, Topeka and SAINTS Fe had &C
CURED the Gulf, Colorado and SantGFe,
and since then both roads have been lay
ing track rapidly in order TO make the
before May !. AS soon as the
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-27
Rousipg Meeting at Te1arkana.
Special to the Gazette.


TExARKANA, ARK, April 26.-Tbere was
an enthusiastic meeting of the bust
ness men and prominent citizens
Of Texarkana at Ghio's opera
house last night, which con-
vened for the purpose of taking fnal
steps toward raising $50 600, the sum
required as bonus to northern capital
to project the TeXarkRna and Northern
Railroad from its present incipient condi-
ton on to Fort Smith. Committees of
solicitation were appointed, and have
been at work all day csnvassing the city
with very favorable results The amount
thus far subscribed will reach S25, 600,
and it is confidently expected that the
other half will be realized in ten days.
Immense interest is manifested in this
departure, which is looked upon as an
accomplished fact of the near future.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-27
A Great Remedy for Liver Derangemonty

Amongst the number of prominent
citizens who have endorsed Ma
guire's Cundurango. will be found
the names of General John B.
Hood, Colonel R8bert L. Adams, Colo
lel James F Casey, Colonel Jack Whar-
sop; General BuskFod r. Johnston, I. NJ
Maynard, ESQ, dames II. Hummell, Esga51
;GeneraI Thomas a. Harris, Rsv. A.5J
Tardy knd many Others the Guhda-
range, for complaints Of the liver blood,
kidneys and Stomach has no equaIS it
opens and regulates the bowels and pre-
vents and cures bilious attacks. 1t E0n-
tains no alcohol, and is the only vegetable
substitute for CalOmel. ~
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-27
WASHINGTON NOTES.
WASHINGTON NOTES.


Special to the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, April 26.-Mr. and Mrs.
james FiudIay, OF Galveston, are at the
Rigby house.
Congressman Culberson has written to
friend here that he intends to be present
at the National drill NJ < month.
Major Morse R. Taylor, surgeon, who
is now on duty at Fort Sill, will be retired
for age on May IA and will make San An
tonic his home in future.
TEXAS PENSION.
Special to the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, april ga pension was
issued to-day to Joseph Woodhouse of
Victoria, Tex.
Petition TO THE COMMERCE COMMISSION.
WASHINGTON, April 26.-J. M. Bur
lingame, Secretary of the Business Mems
Association of Minnesota, comprising
boards Of business mems and farmers
organizations In the state, writes by IN
Struction to the interstate commerce
commission asking that the association
be notified before any consideration is
given to the prayers of railroads between
Chicago ana st. Paul and Minneapolis,
and that they be afforded q hearing on
the subject. *,
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-27
The Thistle AfIoat,

LONDON, April 26.-The Thistle wa!
launched quietly to-day and was at once
towed to Gourock, three miles west o.
Green Rock, on the Clyde river. She
displays considerable overhang of both
stem and stern. Her sails will be carried
forward and her mast will be placed
nearer to the stem than customary. The
main sail is to be immense. Her deck is
very much like the marjories. The bow
spirit will be of CANNON iron fitted to the
stem head, and her big spar will be amid.
ships. The Thistle will cross the Atlantic
as yaWl.